The Indispensable booklist

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Firstly apologies if this has been covered, or isn't in keeping with the thread but a cursory look through this thread didn't show anything on Religion in the Roman military. This is an aspect which, I heartily belive, should appear on any Roman Military reading list

Heres a few select choices:

Davies, J, 2004, Rome’s Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Hassall, W.M.C., 1980, “Altars, Curses and other Epigraphic Evidence” in Rodwell, W. (ed.), Temples, Churches and Religion: Recent Research in Roman Britain, BAR British Series 77(i)

Henig, M., 1984, Religion in Roman Britain, London: BT Batsford LTD

Irby-Massie, G., 1999, Military Religion in Roman Britain, Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill
Mattingly, D., 2004, “Being Roman: Expressing Identity in a provincial setting”, Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 17, pp 5-26

Mattingly, D., 2006, Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54BC – AD 409, London: Penguin Books

North, J., 1990, “Diviners and Divination at Rome” in Beard. M. and North, J. (eds.), Pagan Priests, London: Duckworth, pp49-73

Warrior, V.M., 2006, Roman Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Webster, G., 1986, The British Celts and Their Gods Under Rome, London: B.T. Batsford LTD

Zoll, A., 1994, “Patterns of Worship in Roman Britain: double named deities in context”, in Cottom, S., Dungworth, D., Scott, S., and Taylor J. (eds.) TRAC 94, Oxford: Oxbow Books


also the RIB and CSIR are invaluable in this respect:

Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P., 1965, Roman Inscriptions of Britain: I Inscriptions on stone, Oxford: Claredon Press

Coulston, J.C., and Phillips, E.J., 1988, Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (Corpus of Sculpture in the Roman World): Great Britain Vol. 1 Fascicule 6 – Hadrian’s Wall West of the North Tyne and Carlise, Oxford: Oxford University Press